Quotes from George Eliot

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.